2 jobs in the study of Christian apocrypha (Oslo, Lausanne)
Two postings have come up recently for work on ancient and medieval Christian apocrypha. One is a doctoral position working with Hugo Lundhaug at University of Oslo, on the exciting […]
New Book: Jacob Licht on The Spiritual World of Second Temple Judaism
A new collection, which you can check out on the publisher’s website, from a prominent scholar of second temple Judaism. The first half is devoted to the Qumran finds, and […]
new book: Gardner, The Founder of Manichaeism
Iain Gardner, one of the world’s foremost experts on Manichaeism, has recently published with Cambridge a biography of the prophet of light himself, Mani. Here is the description from the […]
job posting: Assistant professor in the History of Western Esotericism in Late Antiquity
Now here is something you won’t see every day – a one-of-a-kind job posting calling for an expert in, well, everything on this website. I copy the first paragraph below, […]
Call for contributions to a new collection of Roman magic
A call for contributions to a collection on Roman magic can be found on the publisher’s website: the proposed title is ‘There Is No One Who Does Not Fear To Be […]
A new book on otherworld journeys in antiquity
Whenever a new book on our favourite subject (Otherworldly journeys) appears, it is worth noting. John C. Stephens’ new book has ‘Medieval’ in its title, but it actually has more […]
A new edition of Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12
Yoav Meyrav. Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12. A Critical Hebrew-Arabic Edition of the Surviving Textual Evidence, with an Introduction, Preliminary Studies, and a Commentary. Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, Volume: 25.Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. This […]
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